Thursday, January 8, 2015

NYT's scrubs part of story where Charlie Hebdo gunman tells woman to convert to Islam...

Sigolène Vinson, a freelancer who had decided to come in
that morning to take part in the meeting, thought she would be killed
when one of the men approached her.
Instead, she told French news media, the man said, “I’m not
going to kill you because you’re a woman, we don’t kill women, but you
must convert to Islam, read the Quran and cover yourself,” she recalled.

Sigolène Vinson, a freelance journalist who had come in
that morning to take part in the meeting, said that when the shooting
started, she thought she would be killed.
Ms. Vinson said in an interview that she dropped to the floor and
crawled down the hall to hide behind a partition, but one of the gunmen
spotted her and grabbed her by the arm, pointing his gun at her head.
Instead of pulling the trigger, though, he told her she would not be
killed because she was a woman.“Don’t be afraid, calm down, I won’t kill you,” the gunman
told her in a steady voice, with a calm look in his eyes, she recalled.
“You are a woman. But think about what you’re doing. It’s not right.”